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Gateways to Empire

Quebec and New Amsterdam to 1664
  • ISBN-13: 9781611462791
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: LEHIGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Daniel J. Weeks
  • Price: AUD $328.00
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  • Local release date: 13/09/2019
  • Format: Hardback 472 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: History of the Americas [HBJK]
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In Gateways to Empire: Quebec and New Amsterdam to 1664, historian Daniel Weeks has provided the first comprehensive comparative study of the North-American fur-trading colonies New France and New Netherland. While neither colony profited very much, if at all, from the fur trade (though many individuals fortunes were undoubtedly made), Weeks finds that New France, which far outpaced New Netherland in this trade, grew more slowly and had greater difficulty sustaining itself. As he demonstrates in Gateways to Empire, other factors, including New Netherland's openness to religious and ethnic diversity and wider connections to the Atlantic World, allowed it to become more economically secure than its rival north of the St. Lawrence. And yet, in both cases, the principal towns of these European colonies-Quebec and New Amsterdam-moved beyond their initial purposes as hubs for trade with the indigenous peoples to become gateways to European settlement. In this, New Amsterdam, by the late 1640s, was singularly successful, so that it rapidly fostered the production of new European towns in its hinterlands, organizing the landscape for settlement and also for trade within the European-dominated Atlantic-World system.
Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Reconnaissance and the Shaping of Colonial Policy Chapter 2: First Attempts at Settlement in New France Chapter 3: Building the Network: Champlain on the St. Lawrence Chapter 4: Reconnaissance and Staking a Claim-New Netherland Chapter 5: Building the Network-New Netherland Chapter 6: The Fur Trade-the Dominant Flow? Chapter 7: Native-American Networks, Flows of Disease, and the Fur Trade Chapter 8: Flows of People Chapter 9: Flows of Ideas Conclusion: The Diffuse and Specific Networks of New Amsterdam and Quebec Bibliography About the Author
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